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**AlabamaBoyz** · 07-26-2012, 04:23 PM

I've always been fond of those watches with a clear sapphire crystal cover. Scratch resistant.

The watch I currently wear was bought in 1979, a CASIO Sports 100. Not in the same league as your watches but seemed extremely expensive at the time.

In 1971 I held an LED watch in my hands.. it cost $1600 at the time was big, clunky and most of the time was featureless until you pressed the buttons to see the red digits appear out of the darkness. By 1975 NEC were producing digital LCD movements with case and band for $2.
Casio, making digital calculators between 1970-1980 became the world's leading producer. Their first LCD watch was produced in 1978. Within a couple of years Casio suddenly had also captured a lot of the cheap digital watch maket and were moving to more upmarket case designs. Casio didn't have a mechanical watchmaking history.
Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio (Kashio Tadao), an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II and cigarettes were valuable,and the invention was a success.
After seeing the electric calculators at the first Business Show in Ginza, Tokyo in 1949, Kashio and his younger brothers used their profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. Most of the calculators at that time worked using gears and could be operated by hand using a crank or using a motor. Kashio had some knowledge of electronics, and set out to make a calculator using solenoids. The desk-sized calculator was finished in 1954, sold for 485,000 yen and was Japan's first electronic calculator.
•the first watch with LCD, in 1978
•the first digital watch with sensors for forecasting weather trends, in 1989
•a wrist watch with digital compass, released in 1993
•the Twincept wrist watch with on glass display, released 1995 ... http://www.casiodigitalwatches.com/casiohistory.htm

07-26-2012, 04:23 PM	#30
AlabamaBoyz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 622 Senior Member	I've always been fond of those watches with a clear sapphire crystal cover. Scratch resistant. The watch I currently wear was bought in 1979, a CASIO Sports 100. Not in the same league as your watches but seemed extremely expensive at the time. In 1971 I held an LED watch in my hands.. it cost $1600 at the time was big, clunky and most of the time was featureless until you pressed the buttons to see the red digits appear out of the darkness. By 1975 NEC were producing digital LCD movements with case and band for $2. Casio, making digital calculators between 1970-1980 became the world's leading producer. Their first LCD watch was produced in 1978. Within a couple of years Casio suddenly had also captured a lot of the cheap digital watch maket and were moving to more upmarket case designs. Casio didn't have a mechanical watchmaking history. Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio (Kashio Tadao), an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II and cigarettes were valuable,and the invention was a success. After seeing the electric calculators at the first Business Show in Ginza, Tokyo in 1949, Kashio and his younger brothers used their profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. Most of the calculators at that time worked using gears and could be operated by hand using a crank or using a motor. Kashio had some knowledge of electronics, and set out to make a calculator using solenoids. The desk-sized calculator was finished in 1954, sold for 485,000 yen and was Japan's first electronic calculator. •the first watch with LCD, in 1978 •the first digital watch with sensors for forecasting weather trends, in 1989 •a wrist watch with digital compass, released in 1993 •the Twincept wrist watch with on glass display, released 1995 ... http://www.casiodigitalwatches.com/casiohistory.htm
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